Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-22
Paul's Labors Among Those Who Had Not
Heard the Gospel.
Modern Christians Not Apt to Emulate
the Great Apostle.
rhs Church Must Be Filled With tns
Spirit Of Evangelism.
How to Reach the Multitude Outside the
Churches.
The Causes and the Cure Of skspti-
cism.
The Duty Of Christians Toward the Chill
dren of the Street.
NOT ON ANoTHER's FOUNDATION.

NOT ON ANOTHER's FOUNDATION.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 9.-The audiences
at the Brooklyn tabernacle this autumn
are larger than at any time during the
history of this church, and greater
numbers 90 away not able to get in
Led by cornet and organ the congre'
cation sang with great power the
hymn:
The morning light is breaking,
The darkness disappears,
o The sons Of men are waking
To penitential tears.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, DID,,
read and explained passages OF script
urc concerning the dawn of universal
righteousness. The subject of his SER
mon was ~"Unoccupied Fields" and
the text from Romans, CHI. XIV, v. 20:
"Lest / should build upon another mans
foundation"
DIR. Talmage said:
Stirring reports come from all parts
of America showing what a great work
the churches of God are doing, and j
congratulate them and their pastors.
Misapprehensions have been going the
rounds, saying that the outside be-
~nevolences of this particular church
are neglected, when the fact is that
large sums of money are being raised
in varions ways by this church for all
styles of good objects, moi always
through the boards of our own denom-
ination. This church was bnilt by all
denominations Of christians and by
many sections of this land and other
Iands, and that obligation has led US to
raise money for many objects not con-
nected VITA our denomination, and this
accounts for the fact that we have not
regularly contributed to all the boards
commended. But ! rejoice in that you
have done as a church a
MAGNIFICENT WORK,
and that we have received during the
year by the confession of faith In Christ
seven hundred and twenty-five souls.
which fact l mention not in Boosting.
but IL defense of this church, she ing
it has been neither idle O inefficient.
The most of our accessions have been
from the outside world, SO that, taking
the idea of my text, we have not been
building on other peoples foundation.
In laying out the plan of his mission
AIRY tour Paul sought out towns and
: cities which had not yet been preached
to. He goes to Corinth, a city men
toned for splendor and vice, and Jeru-
salem. where the priesthood and tue
Sanhedrim were ready to leap with
both feet upon the Christian religion.
He feels he has especial work to do.
and he means to do it. What was the
RESULT The grandest life of usefulness
that a man ever lived. The modern
Christian workers are aot apt to- imi-
tate Paul. We build on other peoples
foundations. If we erect a church we
prefer to have it filled with families all
OF whom have been pious. Do we
gather a sabbath school class, we want
good boys and girls, hair combed, faces
washed, attractive. So a
church in this day is apt to be built
out Of other churches. Some ministers
spend all their time in
FISHING
in other peoples ponds, and they
throw the line into that church pend
and jerk out a Methodist, and throw
the line into another church pond and
bring out a Presbyterian, or there is a
religious row in some %neighboring
church, and a whole school CT fish
swim of from that pond, and we take
them all in with one sweep of the net.
What is gainedP Absolutely nothing
for the general cause of Christ. 1t is
only as in an army, when a regiment
is transferred from ore division to
another, from the Tennessee to the
Potomac.
Whist strengthens the army is new
recruits. What l have always desired
is that while we are courteous to those
coming from other nocks, we build our
church not out of other churches, but
out OF the world, lest We build on
another mans foundation. The fact
is this is a big world. When, in our
school boy days we learned the diane
ter and circumference of this planet,
we did not learn half. 1t is the lati-
tude and longitude and diameter and
circumference of want and woe and sin
that no figures can calculate. This
one spiritual continent of Indebtedness
reaches across all zones; and If | were